Procambarus (Scapulicambarus) howellae Hobbs 1952

Keith A. Crandall, James W. Fetzner, Jr., and Horton H. Hobbs, Jr.

Containing group: Procambarus (Scapulicambarus)

Types

Holotype and allotype, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. 93158 (male I, female); morphotype, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. 93159 (male II); paratypes, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.

Type Locality

Drainage ditch on campus of Wesleyan College, Rivoli, Bibb County, Georgia

Range

Lower piedmont and upper coastal plain of Georgia in the middle Flint and Altamaha river basins.

Habitat

Lotic and lentic situations and burrows (tertiary burrower).

References

Hobbs, H. H. Jr. 1989. An Illustrated Checklist of the American Crayfishes (Decapoda: Astacidae, Cambaridae, and Parastacidae). Smithsonian Institution Press.

Hobbs, Horton H., Jr. 1972. The Subgenera of the Crayfish Genus Procambarus (Decapoda: Astacidae). Smithsonian Constributions to Zoology, 117: 22 pages, figures 1-20.

About This Page

Page constructed by Emily Browne.

Keith A. Crandall
Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA

James W. Fetzner, Jr.
Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Horton H. Hobbs, Jr.
Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio, USA

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